Archive for April, 2007
You have conquered this domain!
April 25th, 2007 | 
Author: HHnet is mine for four more years. <3 (And my name is masked from the world for two more, because you can only buy WhoisGuard for two, apparently.)
41 bucks. Twenty quid. And Namecheap take Paypal. Very awesome.
Limerick1 for first person to spot cheesy reference in this entry. (edit: Bunny wins!)
1 (author reserves right to substitute other rhyming poetic forms)
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Pull back the sun, you crazy liberals!
(If you don't get it immediately, think about that "an extra hour" sentence for a second.)
P.S. As of months ago, I'm staying out of the climate change debate except for random humour like this. Got a parent with very extreme views. It tires me. As you'll soon see, though, I'm still pro renewable energy in whatever case.
Post title is courtesy of a coworker. :)
Where did Snowball keep his armies?
Now, I'm not saying there's anything wrong with the floofy, floaty look in shirts. Puffy sleeves can look lighthearted and pleasing. I might even wear something like that myself.
However, I wasn't planning to when I bought THESE shirts.
In other words, someone's wardrobe is going to require the attention of a clothing-alterer of some description sooner rather than later. (Especially my ultimately sexy Dragonlord shirt, which is a tad bigger even than the others. It's the most expensive shirt I've ever bought, though, so I don't want to have to consign it to charity.)
Yes! This entry was another subtle boast! There is less of me! Ha ha! *throws up the ears* \m/
The right sort of dislike
Well, I think a persistently no-name character finally let me name her. Hello… Frerene? Frerena? Something like that.
(As I said to Anke, "She didn't like anything I suggested.
And she's not supposed to like it, mind you, but she says it was the wrong sort of dislike."
But I think I've hit upon the right sort of dislike, or she's sick of waiting.)
Now yay for the story where I planned to début her (after a fashion…) being busted probably never to be revived. :(
That doesn't matter, though, because – well, firstly, while I'd planned for Frerene to get a walk-on appearance in that story, it really would have been brief and only one other writer would have been likely to care. :D And secondly, it's of no consequence to her real storyline, which is one that I guess can't be messed up too much by other writers losing interest.
So I don't mind in this case. Still, it always seems to be the way. When I plan lots of cool stuff for a storyboard instead of thinking "eh, I'll go with the flow", that's when antelope apathy strikes…
…And it frustrates me. Much as I generally pretend it doesn't.
I've got a fever. And the only cure is more wyvern.
In time for Monday (23rd April, St George's day) I've been revamping our Saint George piece with the usual Mutt trademarks: more dragon (aye, we actually had a George article that didn't mention the dragon), archaic language (Middle English poetry translation FTW – what other job lets you do this kind of random thing?) and added lashings of teh artz on every page (I luv you, Wikimedia Commons).
Writing alt text is fun.
Platitude of the Day
I couldn't possibly pass any kind of thoroughly approving and admiring comment on this, nor make any remark either to imply that I am snarfing their RSS feed or to encourage you to do the same.
Also, from the same person or persons, a short story.
Baby tigies news trawlette
"It was a bit strange," he added.
–BBC: 'Ghost yacht' found off Australia
I love Australians. XD
Google fun
Iceheart comes up fourth on Google when searching for that term! *boggles* I always imagined it was a completely bog-standard fantasy nickname, even if his omniscient writer still finds it evilly funny. For evil reasons.
*impulsively searches other stuff* Brownsides comes out top, and he doesn't even have a page yet! Steedfast ranks about third too – oh, and look at that. Seems I need to hack the wiki so edit pages (and history pages and backlinks) aren't indexed. I bet that's been facilitating those spam attacks!
Adalfrid's top too, which is surprising – I know it's more unusual than eg Adalheid, but… well, cool, anyway. Applestone is fifth. Baskerville obviously nowhere. If renamed as I plan to, he has the option to clean up, because there are no interesting results at all for Basaltine. (edit:) Unreal! Tortile is third! And it's barely weeks since I named the little bleeder!
Monky business
These monks are kicking my metaphysical metaphorical arse again. (I'd mind more if they weren't so darn pretty while doing it.)
New brief story ideas for my little order of psychotic city kittens keep popping up, and I'm being a good old salt and saving them all for when I haven't got more important things monopolising my time. I wrote one a while back, which turned out rather pleasingly violent, and had always intended to add a few more to show off what some of the other monk ranks do.
This latest idea is the most involved yet. It draws in everything from city politics that I have no idea about yet, via people's popular conception of souls and deciding exactly how the criminal justice system is organised (about which I do, luckily, already have some idea), to having to write some serious tormented emotions (ack!). I'll have to work my way up via some of the less background-heavy plot seeds, I think, or I'll scare myself.
(edit, much later:) Who's a nice cute innocuous monk, then?
I hate Howard news trawlette
I have spare floorspace and couchspace guyz. Or… we will when the garage is painted and all the crap goes back in there…
Polarity reversed
I think we can safely say manic.
Boogieing around the deserted workplace bathroom to the tune of Ayreon's Valley of the Queens1 in my head? Yes, that counts.
1 summary: Emo-Egyptian wishes for death
Pity. I don't feel excessive; this just feels normal instead of miserable.
Dog DNA news trawl
DNA study sheds light on dog size
*huggles the harly dane*
'Affectionate otters' a hit (video)
You know how I feel about MMOs.
(Note: flaw known about since December, Microsoft only acted on 3 April. Wootsayediditagyn!)
It's most certainly good, polite practice to warn (and LJ-cut, etc) when there's something major like pron. If you could get someone fired for a boss's glance over the shoulder, it's nice to warn them (even though, yes yes, we they shouldn't be surfing on company time). Things with 'may be triggering' warnings are one of my secret pet hates.
I will not have a label saying 'anything goes on my blog omggg I might say fuck or bugger'.
People who want to run happy fluffy child-safe blogs should be the ones to add a 'whee nothing controversial here' sticker, since they're the ones with self-imposed standards.
Slap your stupid warning label on the internet at large or just shut up.
